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Braided Zucchini Yeast Bread #BreadBakers

Zucchini Yeast Bread is a nice change of pace from the more typical quick-bread, cakey style zucchini breads. Pureed zucchini adds great flavor, moisture and texture to this tasty yeast-risen bread.

Today the #Breadbakers are showing off their prettiest braided breads!

This is a recipe I’ve been working on for a while. Because I belong to a co-op farm I get LOTS of zucchini, all summer long. I’m always looking for new ways to use the prolific squash. I mean, there are only so many spiralized salads a gal can eat!

When I use zucchini for baking I basically treat it as added water, since that’s mostly what zucchini is made of. Because it doesn’t have a very pronounced flavor, zucchini is easy to slip it into all sorts of recipes.

For my Zucchini Yeast Bread I simply replaced some of the water in a fairly basic bread dough with zucchini. The first few times I made the bread I used shredded zucchini. But the bits of vegetable were breaking up the gluten strands in the bread dough.

At that point I was also using some Greek yogurt in the dough. Between the shredded zucchini and the extra richness from the yogurt, the bread structure was compromised enough that kept splitting apart in the oven.

Though I loved the flavor and richness from the Greek yogurt, along with the zucchini it just wasn’t working. So I’ve tabled the Greek yogurt for now. But I will be working on another bread recipe using Greek yogurt and will post it as soon as I’ve got it right.

Back to the zucchini…Since the shredded zucchini was breaking up the gluten, I tried making a zucchini puree and that did the trick. Now I had a bread that was soft and moist with a very slight vegetable flavor from the zucchini.

All that was left to do was make a pretty braid, top it with some cheese, bake until golden brown, and enjoy! We ate it with a green salad and smoked salmon for a light dinner. Perfect!

Click through the slide show to see how to make Braided Zucchini Yeast Bread:

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We take turns hosting each month and choosing the theme/ingredient. If you are a food blogger and would like to join us, just send Stacy an email with your blog URL to foodlustpeoplelove@gmail.com.

What a great idea to puree the zucchini and then just replacing the water. That way you don't have to drain it or wring it out! I have some summer squash looking for a recipe, and i'm going to try this. Gorgeous loaf!

I have done a zucchini chocolate bread and loved it ! this is the first time I see it in a gorgeous yeasted bread !
Lucky you, Eileen - here zucchini is so off season through the year, its sold for the price of gold :-) I would love to be your neighbour n taste that gorgeous vegetable based bread
PS :what software / app do you plug in to create that amazing slide show for the step-by-step recipe ? looks cool - can u ping me the details offline ? Many thanks :)

Hi Kalyani. I guess we all take for granted what we have in abundance.
I use the "meta Slider" plugin to create the slideshow. I like to make a slide show for process photos so those who want to see the step-by-step can, and those who don't can scroll passed.

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